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Joint letter calling concrete clean air steps in European Commission’s 2020 Work Programme

HEAL, together with 7 other health and environmental civil society organisations has today sent a letter to Executive Vice-Presidents Timmermans and Dombrovskis, and Commissioner Sinkevičius, to call on them to translate the ambition stated in the very introduction of the Communication on the European Green Deal, namely that “the policy response must be bold and comprehensive and seek to maximise benefits for health, quality of life, resilience and competitiveness”, into concrete clean air steps in the 2020 Work Programme of the European Commission.

Read the full letter here

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